The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both antient and modern .. . lows, Whites,IBrowns,and Blacks; but Blews fet not off well withGreens and Purples. 5. But Greens fets off well with Purples, andReds. SECT. II. Directions for the Mixing ofjour Colours. TO mix any Colour, be careful that you makeit not too fad; when you
The excellency of the pen and pencil, exemplifying the uses of them in the most exquisite and mysterious arts of drawing, etching, engraving, limning, painting in oyl, washing of maps & pictures : also the way to cleanse any old painting, and preserve the colours : collected from the writings of the ablest masters both antient and modern .. . lows, Whites,IBrowns,and Blacks; but Blews fet not off well withGreens and Purples. 5. But Greens fets off well with Purples, andReds. SECT. II. Directions for the Mixing ofjour Colours. TO mix any Colour, be careful that you makeit not too fad; when you mix your Colours becareful you put not your Pencils out of one Colourinto another, for it will fpoil and dirty your otherColours, except you wafli your Pencils clean. When you mix any Colours,ftir them well about;the waxer being well coloured, pour it out into aShell, and ftir the reft of the Colours and minglethem together ; pour out the Colour firft, that youmay the better know what quantity of the fadderwill ferve. FINIS. Wmm- * ...> H. e • • s *• v. r^ -. ?^r^J/i w . yv- yv\ -yvv:iyy:.^yv\^e^t 1. IprtfrttfrmtdjfaBjcfclcnjes %^DomanNen/maftadare ti>^{•iatihtrjhpsatlke CoMmLycn: WCftmirqions Jrmes ml BrOtaine . u EXCELLENCY O F T H E $en anu dentil, EXEMPLIFYING The Ufcsof them in the mod Ex- quifite and Myflerious An of DRAWING, 1 ( P A IN T IN G inETCHING, () OYL, engraving,?Swashing of LIMNING, Vf Maps&t-i&ures. Alfo the way to Clejinfe any Old Painting,and Preferve the Colours. Collected from the Writings of the able ft Ma fieriboth Ancient and Modern, as Albert Durer,P. Lomantius, and divers others. Furniihed with divers Cuts in Copper,beingCopied from the belt Matters,and here infertedfor Examples for the Learner to Pra&ice by. A Work very useful for all Gentlemen^ and otherIngenious Spirits t either Artificers or otters* j — .—^ LONDON: Dtfrwrfw Newman^ at the Kings-Armsin the Poultrey, M DC LXXXVIH. To the READER; AMong the many Operation
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